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Tokyo Olympics chief said board meetings with women "take so much time" and brought up the idea of regulating speaking times.
Can you imagine if speaking in meetings were regulated?
Suddenly women would be able to get a word in.
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Can you imagine if speaking in meetings were regulated?
Suddenly women would be able to get a word in.
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Decades of research has shown that men tend to speak more in meetings
https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/d3375-genderandlanguageintheworkplace.pdf
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https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/d3375-genderandlanguageintheworkplace.pdf
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Yet people's biased perceptions cloud who they *think* spoke more in a meeting
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https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_68785_7/component/file_506904/content
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https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_68785_7/component/file_506904/content
Women who do speak up in meetings are rated as
less competent than their equally chatty male peers
/4 https://www.fastcompany.com/3068794/this-app-uses-ai-to-track-mansplaining-during-your-meetings
less competent than their equally chatty male peers
/4 https://www.fastcompany.com/3068794/this-app-uses-ai-to-track-mansplaining-during-your-meetings
Women are more likely to be interrupted in meetings
/5 https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2017/07/07/men-interrupting-women
/5 https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2017/07/07/men-interrupting-women
Amplification is a necessary strategy for women's ideas to be heard and for them to get credit/recognition for those ideas
/6 https://www.vox.com/2016/9/14/12914370/white-house-obama-women-gender-bias-amplification
/6 https://www.vox.com/2016/9/14/12914370/white-house-obama-women-gender-bias-amplification
Because men get more credit for speaking their ideas than women do
/7 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171213130252.htm
/7 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171213130252.htm
"We find that men are given more credit than women even when saying the exact same thing."
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171213130252.htm
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171213130252.htm
Since we're living in pandemic times, virtual meetings are not any better for women
/9 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/zoom-meetings-gender.html
/9 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/zoom-meetings-gender.html
And we haven't discussed how many women are around the table.
Women are just 10.3% of the Engineering workforce in the UK, for example.
/10 https://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/statistics/2019-workforce-statistics-one-million-women-in-stem-in-the-uk/
Women are just 10.3% of the Engineering workforce in the UK, for example.
/10 https://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/statistics/2019-workforce-statistics-one-million-women-in-stem-in-the-uk/
So if the Tokyo Olympics chief wants to regulate speaking times in meetings then it is time for him to take several seats and lean in.
Women have been waiting patiently to speak and be heard for long enough.
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Women have been waiting patiently to speak and be heard for long enough.
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